VANS, a surname
originally and properly Vaux or Vaus, of Norman derivation. Sir David
Lindsay, in his Heraldry, mentions that Vaus was “one of the surnames of
thame that came furth of Ingland with Sanct Margaret,” the wife of
Malcolm Canmore. In the reign of Malcolm IV., Philip de Vallibus or Vaux
had estates in the south of Scotland, and soon after, the lands and
barony of Dirleton, in East Lothian, came into the possession of the
family. The chief remaining branch of this ancient house has long been
that of the family of Vans of Barnbarroch, Wigtonshire.

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